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pH Levels too High

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Ok, as our tap water pH levels have increased can anyone recommend the safest way to drop them as if I do a water change it's stressing my krbis out quite severly. I've tried pH 7 regulator stuff to bring it down before putting it in - that's not working (LFS recommended that). I've added more wood to the tank as well - but some of these guys are going very black and gasping lots.

I don't have any bins or anything to store water in & unfortunately don't have spare funds to purchase anything either. Our tap water is way up, I don't know exactly but as soon as I test it it goes a deep blue colour straight away. I can't afford to be purchasing distilled water either as it gets really expensive, is there no easier way? This water is killing off my kribs quite quickly.

Only thing I can think of is peat in your filter. Don't know if you have PUR tap water filters there, but it'll produce water suitable for the kribs.
Know how you feel; liquid concreate comes out of my tap. I mix it 70-30 reverse osmosis/dionized water to tap. If I didn't have RO/DI units, I couldn't keep 90 percent of the fish I do.

Dave

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